Manisha Sinha has an impressive resume. As a professor of Afro-American studies and adjunct professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, she teaches of the "politics of slavery." Additionally, she has a doctorate from Columbia University, has written several books and was awarded the Chancellor’s Medal in 2011, the highest honor bestowed on UMass faculty. Now, she can add appearing on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to those accolades.

On Tuesday night's episode of The Daily Show, Sinha appeared as a judge on the mock game show, "The Weakest Lincoln." Former New Jersey Superior Court Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, a senior judicial analyst for Fox News Channel and outspoken critic of the 16th President of the United States, was paired as a contestant against The Daily Show's Jessica Williams, who was dressed as President Abraham Lincoln.

"We have an esteemed panel of judges," Stewart said, as he introduced the three academics invited onto the show: Jim Oakes, of City University of New York; Sinha, of UMass; Eric Foner, of Columbia University.

In a game show format similar to the what the name parodies, host Stewart asked the contestants to answer questions. After their answers, a judge agrees with one of the answers.

Sinha's response was considered the expert opinion for the third question Stewart asked, "If the goal was to avoid devastating consequences, how does slavery stack up to the Civil War?"

Williams, as Lincoln, answered first. "500,000 people. Let's see, carry the four score and seven... you know I'm not exactly a numbers person."

Napolitano took a crack at the answer second, "Somewhere between 700,000 and 850,000 human beings died because of Lincoln's war. That's more Americans than all wars put together."

When asked how many slaves, Napolitano said, "You know, I don't know how many slaves. That was not on one of the questions you gave me ahead of time."

Miming anger, Stewart threw his question cards in response and said, "You were supposed to pretend we were all smart, Judge. You're not supposed to tell them we had the answers beforehand."

While the question may not have been one the show asked Sinha to prepare for, her occupation allowed her to supply the answer.

"Nearly 12 million Africans were forcibly removed to the Americas in the African slave trade. By the most conservative estimates of the mortality rate - 10-20 percent - two to five million may have perished."

Her comments sparked an argument with Napolitano on when the slave trade ended and if their deaths can be considered a factor in the Civil War. Jabs between Stewart and Napolitano ended when each expert said, in response to the former judge, "that's not true."

At UMass, Sinha teaches graduate level courses on the history of the South including "African-Americans and the Movement to Abolish Slavery," and "The Politics of Slavery and the Coming of the Civil War." She is the author of two books on the topic, "The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina" and the forthcoming "The Slave's Cause: Abolition and the Origins of American Democracy."